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What is your agenda?  Or where do you fit in this equation?  A concerned parent?  A member of Central Admin?  A reporter?  I get that you are confused and interested in insight but other than giving examples of what you have deemed "horrible leaders,"  I just don't understand where you are coming from.

I followed the Howard Middle School story in the beginning and as an observer it came across as a bunch of parents in collusion with a group of teachers that didn't like being told what to do.

Maybe your perspective is wrong.[/quote]

Whatever the issues were with the teachers , they were leaving! A decent person would've left it at that. A leader who was losing a bunch of insubordinate malcontents may have thrown a party. Pushing the issue by FIRING teachers who'd submitted resignations? And doing so in such demeaning fashion was unprofessional, wrong and the fact that you see no problem with that tactic is an example of the types of leadership issues unique to DC.

And when have you ever known PARENTS to side with teachers who are wrong and not doing right by their children?

Some of you will spin anything to be a teacher's fault.[/quote]

I'm not spinning anything.  I said I was an observer which means I got all my information through the media.  This is what I read saw:

- Parents speaking to the media
- Reports that parents hired an outside person/body to mediate the situation -- WAAAAHH?  That's a red flag right there.
- Teachers had submitted their resignations
- Principal elected to terminate their employment

Other than that, details, whether or not they are not are being posted to here to drum up support for the horridness of the DC school leaders.  For all I know, which I don't, those teachers were in the classroom saying negative/harmful things about the leadership of the school to the students.  If that's the case, they should have been removed, as they were.

Assuming what is posted here is true, which I also do not know, is that the principal is a narcissistic fool who treats people badly to boost her ego. Ok, well if that's true, it's for the board of directors of the school to determine.  This exercise is useless but if you really think you have the ability to help fix the problem, take you concerns to a board meeting, see if you can get a seat on the board, etc.  The board is the body that is accountable to what is happening in the school because the hired the principal.[/quote]

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